Thursday we went back to one of our favorite themes- Prince and Princesses! There are so many princesses stories that we all know and love, but we decided to choose something new and read a story called The Kiss that Missed by David Melling. It was about a prince and a goodnight kiss! During literacy centers, we had the students draw what they thought a prince or princess looked like, or cut one out from a magazine. Princes and Princesses are usually very sparkly! We played jeweler during craft time today and designed our own glittery bracelets! And everyone in the land lived Happily Ever After! The End.
Today we learned all about money! We started with a money journey by reading the book Follow the Money by Loreen Leady. We learned how money is made and all the different places it goes. We practiced using money to buy things at our pretend toy store station, counted money into piggy banks, and made our own piggy banks!
Today's student-chosen theme was Penguins! After our literacy centers, we read the fiction story Tacky the Penguin by Helen Lester and thought about what it would be like to be a penguin. To help us put ourselves in their (webbed) shoes, we watched a really cool National Geographic video clip on penguin families. Then we went to the zoo with Mr. Rogers and watched while a Daddy penguin held an egg while his baby hatched. Click here to watch penguins with Mr. Rogers! Then we tried to "hatch" our own eggs the way penguins do... with their feet! For our craft we painted penguins. Our preschoolers are getting very good at using scissors to cut out irregular shapes. Using sponges, we added white bellies and snow to our antarctic friends.
Today we read Rainbow Fish Discovers the Deep Sea by Marcus Pfister. Then we used our hand prints to make our very own rainbow fish! Our literacy centers this week are letter sound search, journal entries, listening station, and letter logs. Our students LOVE their new literacy journals (that we bought with the money we raised with our can drive). In our math stations we are working with number order, number words, recognizing numbers 1-20 and learning how to play UNO. Last week we learned how to play Top-It (think war) and the kids really enjoyed it. We're currently try to save up more cans to buy more educational games for our room. Next week will be another awesome Kid's Choice week! We have five themes planned, all chosen by students in the class. We have also promised that with good behavior, we can earn a show and tell day on Friday! So stay tuned to this blog and Kozy Heart Facebook page for more details about activities and Show and Tell next week.
CLICK FOR KIDS CHOICE LESSON PLANS (If it does not open when clicked, right click and choose open link in new window) Today was the finale of our Superhero week! After math centers and kindermusic, we tried something new: listening to a batman and superman podcast! The preschoolers had to use their ears to listen, and create pictures of what they were hearing in their mind. After lunch, we participated in the best rainy day activity- painting! We experimented with mixing colors and created some beautiful free-choice art. After our last day working on the current math centers, we did two super fun superhero games: Kryptonite Clean Up and Bad Guy Beat Down. We had a lot of fun being super heroes this week!
|
Authors:
|